Millions of players each and every week choose to use the same lotto numbers; invariably these are memorable dates of loved ones, which in some lotto’s will only cover a part of any potential lottery selections.

Can you decipher the code applying your own special strategy or trust on an e-lottery syndicate to decide them for you? We unrealistically believe that if we don’t do anything or do it the wrong way that something bad may happen, in this case; if we miss doing our numbers that week they are sure to come up!

Being the person to decide on the lottery winning numbers is of course something every committed lottery player wants to do and as humans, we all possess a natural bias against anything that’s random, we all like some form of control and patterns that make sense to us all.

Just because a number seems to come up more frequently; why should it come up again? It’s impossible to pluck any set of lottery numbers that are likely to win. All lotteries are a game of chance and each and every lottery number drawn is purely at is hit-or-miss. So the upshot is – no one number is more random than the next.

If you take a look at the rules of probability, as one lottery number is drawn the likelihood of your selected number being drawn next is slightly increased purely because the possible choice is reduced.

Using the same lottery numbers would mean you would have to play 135,000 times to even receive an evens chance of winning. Unfortunately, to win the lotto jackpot you will just have roughly a 1 in 14 million prospect of being successful; nonetheless we all reckon it could be us. Does that sound like a good chance; would you be better off joining a lottery syndicate?

If you decide on the same numbers each week, just remember they are nevertheless hit-and-miss lotto numbers and you stand just as much a prospect of winning with those same lotto numbers as with a lucky-dip selection. However, if you use birthday numbers in a lotto draw your chances of winning the lottery jackpot still stay the same but likewise your chance of keeping the lotto jackpot to yourself is significantly reduced because so many other individuals use birthday numbers in their selections.